Re: Armour

[David Formosa <dformosa@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

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On Fri, 21 Nov 1997, Kent Crispin wrote:

> On Fri, Nov 21, 1997 at 01:27:38PM -0800, Dave Crocker / IMC wrote:

[...]

> In particular, the fact that simple MUA interfaces appear in many many
> scripts, cgi programs, and so on virtually guarantees a 10 year 
> lifetime.  So think about the following:
> 
> 	mail $user <$file
> 
> Imagine it is embedded in a cgi script, possibly sending a requested 
> file to a user.  How do I leave an encrypted file on disk so it can 
> be sent?

And consider all the aplications that have been built ontop of PGP.
Things such as anon-remailers, secure (new|rm)group commands, NoCeM
implentations ect.  All of wich will have to be converted over to MIME,
this makes Ascii armor a MUST for the forseeable future.

- -- 
Please excuse my spelling as I suffer from agraphia see the url in my header. 

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